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mew up

mew up verb: to imprison.

Verb

mew up (third-person singular simple present mews up, present participle mewing up, simple past and past participle mewed up)

  1. (archaic) to imprison
    • "We do not keep him mewed up, Betsey," replied Mrs. Barclay, “nor does he continue mewed up, for a single flash of temper[…]"1835, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Home: A Story of New England Life

Forms of mew up

third-person singular presentmews up
present participlemewing up
past participlemewed up
pastmewed up

Questions about mew up

What does mew up mean?
Mew up means to imprison.
What part of speech is mew up?
Mew up is a verb.
What is the past tense of mew up?
The past tense of mew up is mewed up.

Words near mew up in the dictionary

  1. MeVs
  2. mevushal
  3. mew
  4. mew gull
  5. mew gulls
  6. mew up
  7. mew'd
  8. Mewad
  9. Mewang
  10. Mewar
  11. Mewari

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